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redbubble shop reviews this is episode
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number one ud apparel and you actually
put your email address in the banner and
in your shop name i didn't know you
could put an email address in your shop
name that's actually kind of funny i
wonder if you can put like a i guess you
did you put dot com so i mean damn if
you wanted to build an email list from
redbubble you could put your
uh
you could build out like a little email
signup form and put it right there in
your shop name i guess i mean that's
weird but hey
i did i just learned something i didn't
know you could do that it won't be
clickable but hey it's still there
all right so collections for collections
by the way only 88 designs joined
october 2020 so it looks like you
probably gave up on redbubble but let's
just do a quick scroll through
uh anyways since we're here you so you
got some stickers some shirts i mean i
do a like i always say stickers and
shirts two best-selling product types on
redbubble uh so you know nothing wrong
with that uh you got some galeon shirts
which i've never seen that sub niche but
i guess we're heading into pride month
so maybe you'll get some
some sales there uh more pride shirts i
don't know are you active on redbubble
or is this just like a random
coincidence that that we're here oh
leprechorn design i know i did a
tutorial on that not too long ago i
guess i was a year ago but that was a
fun video to make where i showed how to
basically do that design style
um some hamilton shirts which i think is
referring to the the broadway right so
i'd be careful there
um more um
st patrick's day stuff some crypto stuff
um so yeah i mean by the way i actually
like if there's one takeaway from this
shop that i just want to share for
everybody viewing
i really like the niche selection
because you got some trends but then
you've got some evergreens like crypto i
guess maybe maybe people jumped into
crypto as a trend but like i think
there's still like an evergreen aspect
to crypto that can generate you regular
sales so um definitely i you know i like
balancing out trends with evergreens
that can make you money on a consistent
basis
all right shop number two maven designer
now have we seen this shot before it
looks familiar i think we've actually
reviewed this shot before because i
remember the background and i remember
the
logo so somebody might have added their
shop twice to the list
so a quick scroll through is all we're
going gonna do here because i know i've
reviewed the shop in a previous one
but you've got some squid game stuff i
wouldn't infringe on squid game that's
not a good strategy for the long term uh
you got some t-shirts some stickers
surprise netflix lawyers didn't you got
quite a bit of squid game um surprised
netflix's lawyers didn't reach out and
get these taken down
um what i'm really looking for now is to
see your tags to see how much you tag
stuffed okay so
in redbubble i mean apparently they're
still not doing anything about the tag
spammers so if you just want to rank on
squid game you would just stack the word
squid or the phrase squid game like a
million times now i'm not endorsing that
or telling anybody to do that i've been
against it since the beginning when it
became prevalent
because i was operating under the
assumption that one day redbubble would
do something about it and really punish
the people who had um abused that
exploit but
doesn't seem like redbubble cares so i
don't know
all right next shop is passion4c
all alright and wow you've got some cool
sticker collections so i actually really
like that doing the sticker packs also
applying um various clipping masks so
you can take like one graphic in this
case of like a c anchor or in this one
you can get like a c anchor graphic
and then just use clipping masks
and you can apply all these different
patterns on top and then make a sticker
pack so a customer may feel like they're
getting
you know a better value instead of
getting one sticker they're getting six
stickers you know and then also
incentivizes them to maybe order like
extra large you know what i mean and
extra large um i don't want to miss
speak but i'm like 99 sure
your margin will be higher on an extra
large than on like an extra small
sticker so that's really cool i do like
that as a takeaway here you've got like
a cool universe uh clipping mask now i
mean i think i've actually used this
exact
uh photo as a clipping mask myself
because i'm pretty sure it's on pixels
if you guys don't know pixels which by
the way i think canva bought pixels i
don't want to misspeak but uh did canva
buy pixels
let's ask google
um canva did buy pixels and pick pixabay
so that's really cool um but pixels i
think that they just came to pixels and
typed in universe and i swear i've seen
that uh
that universe that they're using here um
or you know what you can do do two guys
is you can just grab like any one of
these pull it into you know photoshop
and then use the image adjustment hue
saturation and just use the hue slider
and you can turn the purple into more of
a pink like that
so i've definitely messed around with
that before myself a lot of t-shirts
looks like you're optimizing primarily
for t-shirts and then you've got your
sticker packs
so i definitely agree with that i think
that's a great approach to jumping on uh
redbubble and then also you've got a
bunch of like c anchor stuff um that's
interesting so
all right
the c anchors i mean you you i don't
know if i would have done that many
shirts with just the c anchor and the
clipping mask but i guess that's really
up to you and like you know it's kind of
a lazy approach to take one graphic
switch the clipping mask and just
re-upload
but it's redbubble you get 60 uploads a
day right so you it's kind of like you
know hey should i not use the upload or
should i use the upload and i guess i
i do agree with hey it's better to use
them than not so
but it just seems a little bit weird in
your shop how you have like multiple
anchors with clipping masks uh on top
right next to each other all right
delano shop from thailand 51 designs so
you definitely want to get
more designs listed obviously there's a
correlation between the amount of online
real estate you occupy and the amount of
income the online real estate generates
you generally speaking
let's see though you got your shop you
got some meow tai that's kind of funny
but i don't know if i like i don't know
some of these designs like that that's
just a tough one to execute in theory
you know like the two cats kind of
fighting each other it also looks like
you blew up a smaller resolution graphic
to make that
um
like i don't know if i would have done
the text like that maybe i would have
done it like
vertically stacked on top of each other
like some of your designs are looking
um
asymmetric and i always would recommend
if you're new like if your 51 designs
deep into your business
do symmetric designs
that would definitely be my
recommendation meaning like kind of just
keep it simple like centered like center
the text center the graphics
it's subjective with design but like if
you don't execute well with uh
asymmetric design then it's probably not
going to sell you know even if you like
the idea like meowth i thought that was
a good idea but um like this is a
symmetrical design you got centered text
actually you don't your your battery
graphic is off center which is really
weird i would definitely
that's like basic stuff you know with
design in general to center your stuff
so i would just pay attention to that um
this design certainly is centered i
think from what i could tell yeah so
this is centered this is more what i'm
talking about here
and that's just a good best practice
generally speaking it does look like
you've done a good job though with your
uploads like you've got some designs
optimized like dark foreground light
background you've got some you know of
the inverse of that you know light
foreground dark background and you went
ahead and when you uploaded you made
sure to select the right t-shirt color
schemes that's always great you know
because i mean when you're uploading the
redbubble if you just use that clone
function which saves you so much time
you just got to make sure that you are
making the right adjustments per the
design that you're currently uploading
or that you clone the right listing
shop number five is shido shadow joined
july 2020 168 designs cool watercolor um
banner in the background though
all right featured collection it's
called patterns but it looks like maybe
it's not patterns it's more like
stickers but either way all good um some
of these stickers
i think that you could be on to
something but obviously like you can see
here that
the way that redbubble's rendering these
stickers well it's not even how they're
rendering it this is how it's gonna
print you know what i mean and um
you got to clean that clean those up
because you you've got like fragmented
stickers and then you've got like one
big sticker blob
um so that's definitely not
the most optimal way of
having a design
but you can see as we get bigger
actually they actually get split up
you know into the way that they were
meant to be
but i would just be more mindful of like
how your stuff looks if you're gonna
sell them primarily as stickers and you
know have the primary thumbnail be of
stickers we know stickers sell well but
like it's almost incentivizing them not
to to buy them
um also increase your prices like
a dollar 67 for stickers is way too low
you're not making any money you know
you're making some but barely any
if you actually lock in a sale there
also i mean generally speaking like the
average shirts
i'm guessing here i don't know this for
sure but i'm strongly
i'm strongly very confident that the
most like the average sales of shirts
are darker colored background lighter
colored foreground and you're doing a
lot of the inverse of that on your shop
at least it looked like it at a glance
to me
uh so i would definitely like try to be
more consistent like this is a prime
example of a shop that uh you know you
probably gave up i'm guessing because
it's been two years almost and you only
have 168 designs but like you'd have
been so much better off just like
coming up with
text only designs a big bold font white
text black shirt and just do a bunch of
text-only designs and get to a thousand
uploads because then you'll start seeing
regular sales come in
or i mean i'm assuming you would it
depends i guess but like
text only you can do so quickly and then
you can upload them quickly because
redbubble has the clone function and
really get like a base established for
your business instead of just kind of
doing what a lot of people do which is
oh i don't know what to upload so i'm
going to upload a photo i'm going to
upload
patterns that don't look well on
stickers but then render it as a sticker
you know what i mean and then wonder why
i don't make sales like
you know what i mean this isn't that
hard
all right and the last shop is oh i like
this it's shanna shayna dugan only 76
designs i wish you had more designs but
i do like the banner quite a bit that's
a really nice looking banner
dogspawfirstdogspawfirst.com let's see
if your website's still up oh it is oh
that's really cool now i might be going
crazy but i swear we've seen this shot
before so i don't know why i've got
duplicates in my list for tracking the
redbubble shop reviews might be my
mistake but i do like anyways we'll just
do a quick review of this because i
swear we've seen it before
i've seen it somewhere at least maybe it
was just from the facebook group i do
like that there's a you know what is
this shopify probably um maybe like
woocommerce um something you can okay
yeah shopify so you have a shopify store
associated with your redbubble why not
you know the shopify store is really
your business and if you can collect
email addresses and get repeat buyers
that's really to me like a sustainable
long-term business as opposed to just
like being on redbubble and you know
you're really at the mercy of the
redbubble algorithm uh
you know promoting your products putting
you in search you're at the mercy of
google which i mean is true either way
redbubble shopify either way
but i do like you know really
professional looking banner got the
website kind of mixed in there hey if we
learned one thing from the first
the first shop we saw um you could
probably just edit your
your uh shop title here
and do your uh dogspawfirst.com
you know do something like this like
from the first shop we reviewed i bet
you redbubble lets you do it if they let
you put an email address in i don't
imagine why they wouldn't let you do the
website
so yeah maybe consider doing that um
some really cool like dog art like check
out the graphics and whatnot on this
these are really nice and by the way
anybody watching this that's like hey
how did they
how did they make these designs this
looks like they must be a crazy skilled
um graphic artist and maybe they are but
you can also go to
uh cartoonise.net and i've got a link i
will put in the description
uh to sign up here in case you want to
use my affiliate link wink wink um but
i've been using this for years ever
since we discovered it and it's a great
way like you could do a cartoonize on
fiverr just make a gig for five bucks it
takes like one minute to cartoonize
something the software does it for you
uh you can make a gig on etsy and say
hey custom for your dogs and then accept
your you know they send you you a
picture of their dog you cartoonize it
and throw it up on print on demand
products
obviously on redbubble i mean you can't
really do the two-way communication
there is bubble mail but
i wouldn't recommend doing like custom
listings for people i don't think you
can send files through bubble mail
either way
but this is a great example of just
great artwork great i'm assuming
software driven cartoon cartoonization
of graphics
um beautiful you know this looks great
on a backpack and hey they're charging
50 bucks by the way talk about pricing
psychology they hit that 50 you know
49.99 on the head right there so that's
great
um
you know they've got some random kind of
floral patterns mixed in which i don't
think makes much sense given the theme
of the
the shop which was pretty consistent
until we started seeing kind of the the
random patterns on the bed sheets which
i mean again i guess it's we almost went
a full episode without seeing the random
uploads of floral patterns and abstract
patterns uh we already know guys you're
probably just wasting your time with
this i'm not trying to be a naysayer or
anything like that but like you honestly
should just save your time because i
don't think anybody comes to redbubble
and finds these like
pattern you know just generic graphic
patterns and then goes and spends 100
plus
on you know bed sheets and comforters so
that's just my thoughts guys but anyways
um i think that will wrap up here with
the reviews
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